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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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That looks so much better than what they've done over there.

New York's Highline Park has been the talk of the town for years now.

We literally have the makings for the same thing at least three times over just in Downtown alone.
Sculpting the Embankment into a park would be the smartest thing JC could do and would actually put it on track to be an actual real live national scale city instead of a bedroom community that used to have artists, but now has hastily built shitboxes that start falling apart the day of the grand opening.

Posted on: 2016/4/7 12:54
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Re: Boomtown Rats
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I prefer vacant lots to hastily built new construction. The vacant lots represent possibility. The hastily built tax abated nightmare taxes infrastructure and will be an eyesore for the rest of my life.
Reminds me of those shitboxes that are being built on 10th St. Ugliest things I've ever seen, and we're going to be forced to see them and pay for their buttholes to fill our sewers. Not a pretty picture, but an accurate one.

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Posted on: 2016/4/5 20:54
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Re: Boomtown Rats
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That shit doesn't even look good as a rendering.

I can't wait for Journal Square to blight itself with awful tax abated nightmares like this one. It reminds me of Center City D.C. Business crowd by day, tumbleweeds at night.
Cool, Journal Square will finally have the Cosi and munimeters it's always wanted.

Posted on: 2016/4/5 20:15
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Re: Strong winds wreak havoc in JC, force street closures (PHOTOS)
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The tree out front of Basic on 8th and Erie went over. Shame. Nice tree. Really tied the corner together.

Posted on: 2016/4/4 2:02
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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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No it's not.

Overgrown and unkempt is natural.

Those horrendous looking shit towers they're building are disgusting unnatural eyesores.

Does everything being built these days have to be built with the absolute 100% cheapest crap available?
Can't we get at least a whiff of style on some of these giant projects? This is some Eastern Block stuff happening up on 10th St.

Posted on: 2016/3/31 18:58
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Re: Down under the New Jersey Turnpike extension - recreational use?
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Ironically, the hipsters have now all aged out of being hip and moved into parenthood. If they were to play bocce, it would be in earnest.

Whoa.

Posted on: 2016/3/24 19:42
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Re: Liquor License Cost & Availability?
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I hope so too, there's not nearly enough retail outside of the main strips in Downtown. We need to make as much effort to preserve the retail outside of Grove/Newark and strive to add even more.


To that end, go walk over to Seven Sheep Coffee and grab a drink and a snack. 7th BETWEEN Monmouth and Brunswick.
Great coffee, great food, really nice ownership.

Posted on: 2016/3/24 19:31
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Re: Heavy(ish) Lifting
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Reliable Jim is a local favorite for cleanouts.

Posted on: 2016/3/21 19:43
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Re: Liquor License Cost & Availability?
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If they start serving Lemoncello I may quit my job just to hang out there all day.

Posted on: 2016/3/21 19:43
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Re: Liquor License Cost & Availability?
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Good point...and it probably makes more sense to convert the retail level into a living space as has been done with so many other buildings in the area...because there's not enough foot traffic, especially during the day, to support a retail store.

Hoping that someone will buy the bundle and flip the lisence then the building. Not sure ho wrong he's owned the place for but it can't be easy working 365 days/year, no break, vacation, etc.

Weird, though, because the For Sale signs were all removed a year or so ago.


I noticed that too. Hopefully it means he wants to stick around for a while and maybe hand the business down. Local spots like that are why I moved here and why I want to continue to live here. The more of these places that pack up, the less appealing the neighborhood is and the more it trends toward a bedroom community with a bunch of TGI Fridays.

Posted on: 2016/3/21 17:07
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Re: Heavy(ish) Lifting
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When you say basement cleanout, do you mean relocating carefully boxed items into a storage space, or shovel and dumpster cleanout?

Posted on: 2016/3/21 17:05
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Re: Liquor License Cost & Availability?
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The $1.3M was the main stumbling block.

I was just there for drinks and he told me he was selling for 1.8. Like I said, after two rounds(of beer, not negotiations) my friends and I had chiseled him down half a million dollars and we weren't even prospective buyers.

If the units upstairs are anything like the shape the bar is in, which I fully suspect they are, they'll need everything to be able to be sold/rented for market value. A million bucks is a lot of money. Even with a liquor license, I'm stuck on thinking about the nightmare renovation it would probably be. I don't know how fast you get your money back.

Posted on: 2016/3/21 4:18
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Re: Liquor License Cost & Availability?
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Last time I was in Guillo's talking to him, he said he wanted 1.8 for everything. After two rounds we had him down to 1.3.

I'll bet if you showed up there with $900k in a duffel bag you could have the building. hah

Please don't though, I love that place.

Posted on: 2016/3/20 22:07
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Re: Okay, so who here thinks the Katyn monument needs to go?
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At least they didn't put up a statue of this prick!

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Controversial sidebar opinion: Gandhi actually was a prick! Total racist.

Posted on: 2016/3/18 17:51
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Re: Okay, so who here thinks the Katyn monument needs to go?
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No, she's right. It's time to clean house.

Clemente Field? GTFO. Dude wasn't even American.

Columbus Triangle? Sorry, paisan, take it back it Italy.

It's time somebody had the nerve to say something. Also, what's with all this Dutch shit around here? I haven't met anybody named Van Vorst the entire time I've lived here.

Posted on: 2016/3/18 3:46
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Re: Are parking permits finally being enforced!?
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Large amount of those cars in the daytime and picking up and dropping off stuff to stores on the block. Also, they're the delivery drivers for Helen's, Food King, Gypsy Grill, etc standing while they pick up their next order.
This happens on every other street too, you just don't notice it as much because it's not quite as annoying.

As for the original post, I get a permit ticket roughly every 3 years, which is convenient because the ticket is 45 dollars, which is exactly how much I saved from not buying the permit for the last 3 years. That, plus that obnoxious trip to the Heights. Ugh, parking on central. Also, god help you if you don't bring a checkbook. Who doesn't take cash? I thought this note was legal tender for all debts public and private?

Posted on: 2016/3/18 3:42
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Re: Miso Ramen
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Dudes, let's stay on topic.

Finally went to Miso Ramen last night and I really enjoyed it.

Pork belly and gyoza apps were both very good. I got the Chusan Ramen with the Tonkatsu broth. Loved it.

I had heard they were having some server slowdown issues and food delivery issues their first week so I waited it out and I didn't find any of that to the case. We were seated, with a baby, instantly and our food was in front of us in under 10 minutes. Works for me.

Stoked for the ownership. I've been working near them for a while now and got to know them. They're great guys and I'm excited that their place is open and doing well. Also excited that the food is good too so I don't have to do that nervous half smile, "Yeeeeeah, no, it was greeeeat." ha

Posted on: 2016/3/10 22:34
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Re: The Kitchen at Grove Station (corner of Columbus and Marin)
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Too bad. I only got to go once but I was into it.

Posted on: 2016/3/10 22:27
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Re: estimated cost of demolishing and building new 1 or 2 fam
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You're missing all of the pieces.

Posted on: 2016/3/7 20:34
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Re: TALDE JERSEY CITY
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Also live right next to Talde and agree that the place is dead on weekdays. Sometimes it's maybe half full, but nobody is ever at the bar on a weekday. You'd think they could drag me in there, being I live next door, but there's never a beer or mixed special that I'm at all interested in. If you can't compete in some way with Barcade(craft and happy hour) or Rolon's(Rolon's), you're not getting my money.

Why pay $7 for craft at Talde when I'm getting it for $5 at Barcade at HH, and why pay $5 for a Yuengling at Talde when I'm getting it for $3 across the street at Keyhole?

Math, yo.


So.................


Whole Foods?

Posted on: 2016/3/3 0:25
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Re: Are These Your Kids? Darwin Award Nominees
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Yeesh. That guy.

Posted on: 2016/3/2 15:43
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Re: 15th St Deli
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So, 15th Street. New owners, some guys from the city. They opened the place up a bit. There was a cat sleeping on the loafs of bread, so buyer beware.


I'll take a cat on the loaves over rat turds in the bags. Nice to see a cat earning his keep unlike all the freeloaders loafing around apartments.


The bread bed is its reward for a job well done.

Thumbs up, cat!

Posted on: 2016/3/2 14:49
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Re: Are These Your Kids? Darwin Award Nominees
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A 20 foot drop to a teenager is at worst a broken ankle.

Parkour is in. Get into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vc8J339BkE


At least they're not smokin that wacky tobacky!

Posted on: 2016/3/2 14:45
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Re: Are These Your Kids? Darwin Award Nominees
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Darwin Awards? Come on, that's like 10 feet in the air. Kids their age are made of rubber.

Hell, I've climber dumber stuff in my 30's. We're descended from monkeys, ask Darwin. Climbing is fun!

Posted on: 2016/3/2 2:18
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Re: Provost Square
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I hope they fire that ShopRite into the sun.

Posted on: 2016/3/1 19:12
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15th St Deli
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Saw a new sign and inventory going into what's now being called 15th Street Deli at Erie/15th. Right by the basketball courts, where people play volleyball. hah

Anybody stopped in yet? It's on my commute from Downtown to Hoboken and this would be a sweet stop if they have good coffee/breakfast sandwiches.

If nobody chimes in I'll be the guinea pig this week.

Posted on: 2016/2/29 1:42
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Re: 'American Diner Revival' makes over JC's El Cabanal (FN 2/26 8:30)
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Finding it isn't a problem. It's seen by literally millions of people a week. Actually stopping and sitting down is the issue. I opt to roll the dice and park out front, betting their cook can sling me a TEC faster than the PA can get their act together to ticket me. I've been right so far.

PA if you're reading this, that is not a direct challenge! I'll buy you a coffee! Let these people live!

Your only other option is to A. go park over in Downtown and hoof it back across the tunnel, which would be like crossing Columbus 4 or 5 times just to go to Wonder Bagels. I love you, but no.
or B. park somewhere between Lackawanna and the low rises and again, walk a couple blocks through a less than ideal visual area. That's the better option, but if there's no spot at Erie and 15th, I'd imagine most will keep driving.

Posted on: 2016/2/29 1:40
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Re: Twin waterfront office buildings sold for $299M
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I think we're overlooking the part where 2 12 story buildings sold for THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS in Jersey City.

That is like... wow. A lot of money. hah

Posted on: 2016/2/28 2:11
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Re: 'American Diner Revival' makes over JC's El Cabanal (FN 2/26 8:30)
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I did not see this show, but I did notice a little bit ago that their look changed up. I dig the gumdrop bar stools.
Actually there this morning. Had the breakfast burrito and a coffee. Both of which were very good.

Vibe and food are both real good here, only rub, which I believe will always be their issue, is that there is no parking at all except for illegally out front, which means that you have to get there by foot, which is a miserable walk from Downtown JC or Hoboken. You have to cross the wastelands from either direction. I don't see how you can overcome that.

Posted on: 2016/2/28 2:08
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Re: estimated cost of demolishing and building new 1 or 2 fam
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This will almost certainly cost between $10 dollars and $10 million dollars.

Well, unless you want to build downtown...

Posted on: 2016/2/27 0:05
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